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Committee formed to improve local relations

By Shweta Murthi Contributing Reporter As part of an effort to improve community relations with the surrounding St. Louis area, Chancellor Mark Wrighton has founded a new Steering Committee for Urban and Community Programs headed

by Edward Lawlor, dean of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.

The initiative will be a collaborative effort between the Hilltop and Medical School campuses to create a more positive impact on the surrounding community.

“We’re meeting next week for the fi rst time,” said Lawlor. “We’re going to be looking particularly at initiatives that run across the academic departments and professional schools to see how we can impact the surrounding commu-

nities, such as University City and Forest Park Southeast.”

On the Committee’s agenda are ways to align the academic interests of the campus with community interests.

Currently, most of the health services offered to St. Louis residents are through the Washington University Medical School, and several therapeutic clinics are run to help the community through the School of Social Work.

Wrighton discussed opportunities in the law school, where “we have an environmental clinic and a couple of other clinics that are opportunities for students to be involved in legal work to help others in the community and give them an opportunity for a practical experience.”

“The business school dean, the Arts & Sciences dean, and the medical school dean are al

involved. I believe that that we have at least one representative from every school and we have some senior leadership involving Pam Lokken, vice chancellor for governmental and community relations, and Robert Blain in that area of activity with the medical school,” said Wrighton.

While the Committee will focus primarily on relations between the University and St. Louis, collaborations with other campuses and institutions are likely in the future.

“We do a number of things collaboratively with other schools, and we gave them information about the things that we are doing,” said Wrighton. “For example, math and science education, which is an Arts & Sciences effort—we’re doing that in partnership with other institutions such as the St. Louis

Science Center and Mizzou [the University of MissouriColumbia].”

“It’s conceivable to work with Saint Louis University (SLU). Right now, we’re trying to get a better inventory of the academic leadership in the things that we’re already doing. The Brown School of Social Work has already been collaborating with the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) and SLU in our field education programs,” added Lawlor.

Neighboring suburbs such as University City and Clayton have been particular focuses for the Committee, which is looking for ways to compensate for the new construction and the noise levels associated with the campus.

“It’s a new undertaking stimulated in part by the fact that we purchased some

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property north of Delmar and in a way we’re assessing what we can do there. We’ve developed the residential area [the South 40] and some of the neighbors don’t like the noise or the dust, so near-neighbor relations are important,” said Wrighton.

City Manager of University City Frank Ollendorff noted, “I think we have an excellent working relationship, and I think that there’s a lot of mutual respect for each other’s projects.”

He added that the University has already made an impact on University City services.

“I think the University is cooperating greatly in providing services and assistance to our school district, “ he said.

“I’ve seen a lot of programs that the University offers that I would say are doing a lot for

Questions still abound regarding Treasury election

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us—everything from the University City daycare center to assisting with improving properties and contributing to policing efforts.”

When asked about the general sense of community that the students on campus have been involved in, Dean Lawlor was enthusiastic about the continued efforts of students.

“One of the things that I’ve been surprised at so far is all the different ways that students are involved. Just from [the Brown School], our students are spending over 200,000 hours a year in community service-based organizations in St. Louis. I know there are similar activities coming from the medical school. There’s probably more going on than what the general perception is.”

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Snow obscured the campus landscape on Thursday. TOP: Students had to forge their own paths across main campus. BOTTOM LEFT: The South 40 before and after it snowed. BOTTOM RIGHT: Snow glazes the “OP” sculptures. Turn to today’s back page to see more snowscapes.

In the wake of controversial proceedings at the Student Union Treasury meeting last Tuesday, a Student Life investigation into the meeting’s events has shown that the recent midterm Treasury elections could have been illegal.

“The vote of confidence motion [for elections] needs a [general] vote. We set that precedent two years ago,” said Chris Wray, a former speaker of the Treasury and a certified parliamentarian. “This is in sharp contrast to the events of last week.”

According to “Robert’s Rules of Order, Newly Revised,” the handbook used by Student Union (SU) to guide their proceedings, “If the question is not debatable, or debate has been closed by order of the assembly, the chair, immediately after stating the question, puts it to vote…” In layman’s terms, this means that any motion, after being debated, must be put to a vote before taking effect.

“There is no justification for their actions,” said Wray.

“You would need at least a majority, if not a super majority [two-thirds of the body].”

At last week’s meeting, the election was triggered by only a motion and a second, not a vote on the part of the entire body. Former Co-Chair of the Student Group Activities Committee Harsh Agarwal was

unanimously selected as the Treasury’s speaker.

Despite the required adherence to “Robert’s Rules,” several top SU executives were unable to cite the legal justification for the events of last week’s meeting. When asked about “Robert’s Rules,” SU President David Ader and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Students Jill Carnaghi each referred Student Life to Agarwal. Yet Agarwal referred reporters to former Speaker of the Treasury Judson Clark, who declined to comment and referred reporters back to Agarwal.

“As far as the legality of the election is concerned, I go by common sense. We did not have a vote,” said Agarwal. “It seems logical.”

He added, “‘Robert’s Rules’ does not do the best job of guiding how elections work.”

Agarwal did not run the proceedings of the election.

“Effectively, there was no speaker to run the meeting [at the time of the election],” said Agarwal. “I was not the one who approved elections. The previous speaker would be the one who would have to. I don’t know what was going through the previous speaker’s head.”

He added that there was an unofficial general consensus to have an election.

“It was agreed to by everyone in the room that we should fi nd a new speaker fi rst and then he or she would run the

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Student blogs on the rise, despite security risks

By Jessie Rothstein Contributing Reporter As the popularity of online Web logs, or “blogs,” has skyrocketed in the past couple of years, it is starting to become clear that the sense of security users have in these sites is oftentimes incredibly misplaced.

Although Web sites such as MySpace, LiveJournal, and Xanga include privacy provisions, they oftentimes end up being available to anyone who can connect to the Internet— including unwanted strangers, prospective employers, and even someone’s parents.

According to a recent study released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, at least 8 million youths ages 12 to 17 read or create blogs.

The Facebook, which had only

a few hundred users in 2003, its fi rst year, now boasts more than 8.5 million profi les. Scott Granneman, professor of the University College course “From Blogs to Wikis: Building an Online Community in a Virtual Environment,” attributes the wide popularity of social software such as blogs not only to the fact that they have become incredibly easy to use, but also to the “unique combination of structure and lack of structure” that they provide.

In other words, blog sites give users a box where they can not only write, but put down absolutely anything that they desire.

Junior Jazzy Danziger, coadministrater of the Washington University students’ LiveJournal community, credits the growing popularity of blogs

to the fact that the stigma attached to them has declined.

“The stereotype of the ‘nerd with a blog’ is fading,” said Danziger.

She noted that another aspect of people’s attraction to blogs has to do with ego. “We all want to believe that people are interested in our everyday lives,” she said.

Yet many recent issues involved with these Web sites have raised concern among both users and campus leaders. Despite privacy protections put in place by these Web sites, much of students’ information, including cell phone numbers and dorm room numbers, may be made available to a much wider and unknown audience, creating potentially dangerous circumstances. As the Chicago Tribune reported, Michael Sul-

livan, deputy bureau chief for the High-Tech Crimes Bureau of the Illinois attorney general’s office, has already taken reports of students being approached by unwanted visitors after posting this type of information in their online blogs.

These dangers are compounded by the fact that students oftentimes use online journals as a type of counseling forum, discussing past issues such as sexual abuse or depression. As Sullivan noted in an interview with the Chicago Tribune, “You’re not only putting out how to get ahold of you, but you’re actually telling what the problems are in your life, which gives predators a chance to know what buttons to push.”

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WU selected as historic physics site

By Helen Rhee Staff Reporter The American Physical Society has selected Washington University as a historically significant site to the field of physics. The University is the location where Arthur Holly Compton, former chancellor and professor of physics, did his Nobel Prize-winning research on X-rays. APS has also selected four other universities to be designed as part of the register of historic sites. APS has launched the project just this year to recognize historically significant sites to the field of physics.

On Dec. 12, Chancellor Mark Wrighton will receive the plaque on behalf of the University, presented by John Hopfield, president of the APS. The plaque will be

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They were supposed to survive only 90 days. Yet they’ve lasted for two years—two Earth years, that is.

But one of the men who controls Spirit and Opportunity, two NASA rovers exploring Mars, said he isn’t surprised.

“They are very well-built machines. I wouldn’t be surprised if they lasted another year,” said Ray Arvidson, the deputy principal investigator for the mission and a faculty member in Washington University’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

The department’s building is one of 30 sites around the nation that manage the rover.

Arvidson, along with other faculty, undergraduates and graduate students, holds a series of meetings each day with the other sites to coordinate rover activities.

The two rovers landed in Jan. 2004 on opposite sides of Mars, near the equator. The mission’s purpose was to see if the planet had water in the past. Liquid

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placed inside the Eads Hall main entrance, where the building basement served as the laboratory for Compton when he discovered the Xray scattering effect.

As a part of the commemoration ceremony, Neal Lane, former director of the National Science Foundation and chief science adviser to President Bill Clinton, will give a keynote speech, entitled “Compton and Science Policy.” Following the address, physics professor Michael Friedlander will discuss “Compton as Chancellor.” John Rigden, adjunct professor of physics, will speak about the significance of Compton’s experiment.

In 1920, Compton began his career at Washington University as the Wayman Crow Professor of Physics in Arts & Sciences and the

chair of the physics department. During the ensuing three years, Compton investigated the dual nature of X-ray research, and subsequently received his Nobel Prize in physics.

Friedlander remarked on the significance of Compton’s research in the field of physics. “His x-ray experiments were important steps in stimulating the invention of quantum theory, which took place in Europe during the 1920s,” said Friedlander.

In 1923, Compton transferred to the University of Chicago, where he investigated such topics as cosmic ray physics. During World War II, he served the important role of director of the Metallurgical Laboratory for Atomic Projects. In 1945, he returned to the University

and became its ninth chancellor.

“He was a very distinguished scientist. Washington University was fortunate to have him come back as chancellor,” said Friedlander.

Compton received the Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the X-ray scattering effect. He discovered that an X-ray loses energy when it scatters off an electron. This is also known as the “Compton effect”, which demonstrated behavior similarly between radiation and particles.

The four other places that were selected for inclusion in the APS Register of Historic Sites include Case Western Reserve University, the location o f the Michelson-Morely experiment; the Franklin Institute in Phila-

delphia, to celebrate Benjamin Franklin’s work in electricity; Johns Hopkins University, the site of Henry Rowland’s experiment; and Yale University, to recognize the contribution of J. Willard Gibbs in the development of thermodynamics.

According to Alan Chodos, associate executive officer at the APS, the initial idea to begin the Register of Historical Sites came from Europe, where important sites in science are already being commemorated. He stated that the registry is one of the ways to raise pubic awareness about important historic events, noting that that APS would continue to recognize numerous sites in the upcoming years.

The registry coincides with the 2005 World Year of physics.

Mars rovers continue their operation

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water does not exist today on Mars due to its extremely cold climate, but there is direct evidence that liquid water once flowed on the planet.

Right now, Spirit is climbing Husband Hill, looking for exposed rocks on the crust of the planet like sandstone, ejecta, and ash, and it has found that all of them have been modified by groundwater trickling through those areas.

The Opportunity rover is examining a set of rocks very close to the surface that formed in shallow lakes billions of years ago.

The average day for Arvidson and his team starts around 10 a.m., when there is a kick-off meeting in which about 30-40 people discuss what they would like the rovers to do. The ideas are then narrowed down to the most important activities and compiled in a computer list.

Two or three hours later, there are two successive walkthroughs where the group discusses preliminary summaries and reviews of sequences. Finally, around 6 p.m., there is a Commander Approval Meeting

(CAM) where the group makes sure that the processes are safe and scientifically important. The data is then given to the NASA engineers who form the data into a radio signal to be sent to the rovers.

The machines are solar-powered and must receive their instructions during the Martian day, meaning making contact with them can be a harrowing task.

“Every day, Earth time moves 39 minutes ahead of Mars time. Also, the two rovers are on opposite sides of the planet. We have to keep three times in mind and we really have to watch the times,” said Arvidson.

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NASA and the University are planning future Mars missions, which they hope will uncover more secrets of the planet or perhaps even life.

“These zones are places that had the right stuff at the right

time to form life,” said Arvidson.

In the meantime, he is basking in the success of the current rovers.

“NASA is very proud of the mission,” he said.

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Surviving finals: how to keep your sanity

By Mackenzie Leonard Contributing Reporter As classes wind down for the fall semester and students approach Reading Week, a spirit of angst seems to permeate the Washington University community as students come to the realization that fi nals are near.

For many college students, fi nals represent a hectic week of long, sleepless nights, skipped meals, and pre-exam cram sessions. Even the typically over-achieving, forwardthinking student can feel overwhelmed by the magnitude of material that must be mastered and memorized prior to each exam.

Alan Glass, director of Student Health and Counseling Services, said students should be particularly vigilant about maintaining positive health

habits during exam week.

“Sometimes because of increased stress or lack of sleep, immune systems aren’t what they should be, so we see an increase of infectious-type illnesses (i.e. sore throats, colds, and bronchitis),” said Glass.

He added, “The counseling service sees increased incidents of anxiety, stress, and sleep difficulties. Those who have pre-existing mental health issues become more severe during times of stress.”

With so many physical and mental health concerns exacerbated during fi nals, students must do all in their power to maintain the lowest stress levels possible. Glass recommended that students “be conscious of their diets— there’s sometimes a tendency to ‘get the munchies’—and try to maintain a consistent schedule as much as possible;

eat a balanced diet; drink plenty of fluids; try to limit caffeine intake or to keep it consistent with what you do the rest of the year; and attempt to get restful sleep.

Your brain needs sleep to accurately process and retain information.”

Freshman Ningning Ma plans to do just that.

“I think I’m going to get seven to eight hours of sleep [every night]. I’m going to [keep from getting stressed] by setting aside some time for studying and some for relaxation,” she said.

Though following Glass’s suggestions can seem almost impossible during a time when academics are at the forefront of everyone’s mind, numerous resources are available on campus to assist students in reviewing for and preparing for exams and in eliminating

as much stress as possible.

Cornerstone offers a number of study aids and help sessions for students during fi nals. According to Harvey Fields, assistant director of academic programs for Cornerstone, Peer Led Team Learning (PLTL) groups are an excellent resource for students already involved in them (students must register for these at the beginning of the semester).

For students not participating in PLTL or study groups or those who are participating in the programs but would like extra assistance, Cornerstone offers scheduled “work sessions” (exam review sessions between now and the times of the fi nals) for general chemistry, general chemistry lab, organic chemistry, organic chemistry lab, physics, all calculus classes, and Math 217.

The schedule for these sessions is posted on the kiosk in front of Cornerstone and on Cornerstone’s Web site (corne r stone .w u st l .e d u /i nde x . htm).

Fields also noted that those who live in Brookings, Wayman Crow, or William Greenleaf Eliot Residential Colleges have access to their residential peer mentors (RPMs) during their established office hours. RPMs are also willing to help a limited number of students who don’t live in their residential college but who are seeking help during office hours.

In describing how students should go about preparing for fi nals, Fields said, “It is never too late to utilize time management principles to prepare for one’s exams. Time management can be the tool to help students allocate ad-

equate time for studying on a staggered basis.”

He further noted, “We always recommend that students use the course-designed materials—any office hours or help sessions that are offered by the department should always be utilized.”

The numerous resources mentioned above as well as those available through professors and departments will certainly assist students in preparing for exams in the most efficient and effective manner possible.

According to Glass, “This is a challenging time of year for students, and I’d encourage them to be sensible and make good decisions about health behaviors. And even the smartest students could use a little luck, so I wish them good luck.”

Gut bacteria may provide insight into weight loss

By Laura Geggel News Editor When a grocery shopper glances at the nutritional information on a box of Cheerios, the number of calories is 110 calories for a serving size of one cup. But depending on the type of bacteria living in the shopper’s gut, the full 110 calories may not be fully absorbed. The number of calories denotes “the absolute amount of energy in that serving, and shoppers with different [types] of bacteria in their gut may harvest and store different amounts of energy from that same serving,” said Jeffrey Gordon, the director of the Center for Genome Sciences at the School of Medicine, and the Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor.

Over 800 species of microbes live in the human gut.

Consequently, research on bacteria may be able to offer

insights about how energy and weight are stored in the human body. Gut bacteria also may be the key to drug therapies that could treat a variety of digestive or weight loss processes.

Gordon, along with Ruth Ley, an instructor in molecular biology and pharmacology, recently received approval from the National Institutes of Health to sequence 100 microbial genomes.

“We think of this as the next logical step in the human genome project because the micro-biome is an integral part of our genetic landscape,” said Gordon. “We can begin to understand the different types of properties these organisms bring to us.”

“Most people think of bacteria as being adversaries, pathogens, [but] we think that most of our encounters with microbes are friendly and mutually beneficial,” he

continued.

Although the microbes that reside in human guts are foreign entities, often introduced at the time of birth, from mothers and from the environment, they are essential to digestion and fat storage.

“We’ve done experiments in [bacteria] free mice that show that when you add bacteria in a very short period of time, the mice acquire a market increase of 60 percent in the amount of fat cells,” Gordon said.

He added that, “The way that works is that the microbes help break down these indigestible components of the diet and liberate the calories, but they also help the host by allowing the energy that is liberated to be stored in fat cells. They do so by manipulating a series of genes in the host.”

“You can think of this symbiosis in a very elegant

way, in that microbes not only help break down components of the diet and liberate calories that would otherwise be lost, but also to ensure that those calories are stored,” said Gordon.

Gut bacteria, for instance, can break down polysaccharides, a carbohydrate found in plants that are integrated into everything from bread to pasta.

Gut bacteria, also believed to influence metabolism, may eventually allow scientists to form drugs specific to people with certain species of bacteria living in their gut.

“Armed with that knowledge of what the metabolic potential of these microbes are, I think that we will begin to see clinical trials within the next fi ve years. For example, the nature of nutritional advice is predicated on the knowledge of what the microbes in an individual’s gut can do, so [individuals could

have] more of a personalized nutrition of what they should consume,” said Gordon.

The microbes, which interact with genes in the storage of fat, could potentially help overweight individuals drop pounds.

“This gene product, which actually operates to limit the amount of fat stored, could become more of a potential therapeutic agent,” he said.

Despite the crucial role gut bacteria play in digestion and energy storage, the microbes’ genomes have only recently been addressed within the scientific community. While the fi rst comprehensive description of microbes in the human gut was published in June 2005, Gordon explained that the study only included three adult humans.

“There was quite a large differences in types of bacteria present,” he said. “We don’t know if the membership to the community vary

With Treasury as a relatively new organization, though, Agarwal sees the precedent as still being set.

“Treasury is two and a half years old,” he said. “This is a time for setting precedent.

You will fi nd a lot of precedents that are constantly overturned. If exceptions need to be made, we have been elected to do so.”

Overall, Agarwal feels that the elections were carried out equitably.

“I wanted to ensure fairness,” he said. “I gave the option to both candidates if they wanted to defer elections.

Budget allocations for student groups were due right then, and deferring elections would do no good if both [candidates] were ready to run.”

Furthermore, he feels the focus should not be on the

internal proceedings of the Treasury, but rather on its future interactions with the student groups that it oversees.

“What I am charged to do is see that student groups’ interests are maintained,” said Argawal. “Had we deferred the elections for two weeks, the budgets may not have come back to the groups until next semester. It is not unethical. It is what we have been elected to do.”

TREASURY v FROM PAGE 1 meeting,” said Agarwal. “We did not have a vote on whether we should have an election or not. It made sense to do it [that way].”

He continued, “Honestly, if we had had a vote in there, I don’t think anything would have changed.”

In addition to issues regarding the legality of the elections, another issue aris-

es concerning whether the Treasury followed their own precedent, set in Nov. 2003, when electing a speaker.

“In 2003, the Treasury leadership decided to hold midterm elections,” said Wray.

“Two weeks before the elections were held, a member of the Treasury called for elections. It was something that we did well in advance.”

or operate differently. It may be that there’s a lot of redundancy among the types of bacteria even though they’re called different organisms, they may perform similar functions.”

Gordon and Ley hope to sequence gut bacteria fi rst in mice and then compare and contrast microbes in people living in different regions of the planet, “both to understand how humans vary in respect to one another and how environment influences differences in genes,” said Gordon.

BLOGS v FROM PAGE 1 Granneman attributed these privacy issues to the fact that “people don’t think hard about what they’re posting.” As an example, he described how a quick search for “licenses” on Google Images draws up numerous images of scanned licenses that people have placed on their own Web sites, making them readily available for both stalkers and those intending to commit identity theft.

Yet the dangers of blogging extend beyond these security issues, as topics discussed on revealing blogs can come back to haunt people during social circumstances and even job interviews. Danziger is aware of these threats.

“I use these security options often, usually when I’m writing about a topic or a concern that I only want my close friends to know about or respond to,” she said. “Even then, I have to ask myself, ‘If for some strange reason this privacy provision failed, would you be horribly embarrassed if this entry was available for all eyes to see?’”

Privacy concerns arise from the fact that when a blog post goes online, it may be indexed

by Google, even if it is removed a couple days later. Due to Google’s cache, information or reactions posted in online journals may live on longer than anyone ever intended. In his course, Granneman uses the term “the Web never forgets” to refer to this troubling circumstance. These conditions may pose serious threats to blog users when they are interviewing for jobs; if a prospective employer Googles a name and discovers an incriminating image of him or her next to a beer bong, the outlook may not be hopeful.

Aside from Google’s index, Granneman explained that even if someone limits how many people can access their blog, it is never truly private, due to the simple act of copying and pasting. “Someone could copy what you’ve written and put it in their blog, and then it’s open to everyone,” he pointed out.

Said Danziger: “You have to write with the assumption that everyone you’ve ever spoken to or even met is reading your blog—otherwise you’re bound to get yourself in trouble.

As evidence of this concern, Granneman cited the growing trend of people now including at the bottom of their e-mails advisories against blogging, such as “please keep this e-mail private, do not blog.”

Even with these security concerns, Granneman admits that he continues to run his own blog.

“The only way to safeguard your privacy is to not blog at all…but that’s no fun,” he said.

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By Gina Anderson Op-ed Submission I would like to respond to Anna Dinndorf’s article titled “Don’t try to tell me it’s cold” in the Dec. 7 issue of Student Life. I would like to assert that it is indeed cold. While Minnesota might be colder, that does not mean St. Louis is not cold. When you can barely feel your hands, feet and ears, when your face burns with wind and snow, and you can’t wear less than four layers of clothing to step outside the building…it is cold.

I am from outside Chicago, meaning (according to Anna) I should either a) have some innate affection for the cold or b) be used to the cold. Yet I still hate the cold and whine about how it’s cold, as I’m sure do a number of other Northerners who should allegedly be accustomed to the cold.

While it might make you a better snow driver than the St. Louisans (oh wait…a chimpanzee on a unicycle would be better than them) just because you’re from the North (or any colder climate) doesn’t automatically mean you like the cold. If anything, you hate it more because you’re aware of all the annoying implications of cold weather, especially snow. Although you might feel pity for those students

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from warmer climates, often they’re more excited about the cold weather than the Northerners are—having never experienced the hell that is winter and snow and slush, they’re thrilled by the change of seasons.

Being from a colder climate also does not guarantee that you can deal with the cold. There is one key difference between the cold when I’m at home and the cold when I’m in St. Louis: driving. I drive everywhere when I’m at home. Being in an enclosed vehicle, with heated seats and climate control, mitigates the 10-degree temperature outside. In fact, I usually dress as though it’s 60 degrees out in the winter when I’m at home, because I’m only outside for about 10 minutes a day.

You go from your house to the car, the car to the store (or wherever else you may be going) and then back to your car and eventually back to your house.

Furthermore, it seems a faulty assumption in the fi rst place that if you’re from a colder climate you should be “used” to the cold. If this were truly the case, by the time you were 18 years old, wouldn’t you not need a jacket in the winter? This is obviously not the case.

Regardless of where you’re from, if you’re human, you’re

“It seems a faulty assumption in the first place that if you’re from a colder climate you should be ‘used’ to the cold.”

going to experience coldness and need a coat in the winter—this is not something that will go away if you live in a cold climate for long enough.

In St. Louis, at school, you have to walk everywhere, giving Northerners and Southerners alike justification for whining about the cold. Who wants to traverse the campus in windy, 20degree weather? No one is

really dying for this opportunity. The walk from dorm to classroom takes around 10 to 15 minutes, and even if you take the shuttle from the Clocktower to Mallinckrodt, you still have to be outside for at least fi ve to 10 minutes. You also have to walk from class to class throughout the day. Even if you drive to school, chances are you won’t be able to get a parking spot close enough to your

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t’s getting to be that time of year again. For me, this time of year is not associated with holiday spirit but with the inevitable fight to find a summer internship or, this year, a job. This task always starts out very well and with high hopes.

You find 10 possibilities at great organizations where your résumé and experience match exactly the type of person they’re looking for. And then you, a rising senior, do not even get an interview. And why is it, you might ask, that a qualified applicant at one of the best universities in the nation gets totally shot down? You don’t have any connections.

Connections are everything in the world of job hunting. “It’s not who you are; it’s who you know” holds heartbreakingly true. Family connections are what help Bob, the incoming freshman, get that prestigious internship with the stock exchange that you failed to land an interview for, despite your superior qualifications. His uncle happens to know the guy who rings the bell to open the stock exchange.

He is hired without an interview.

And this year for the Class of 2006, the stakes go up another notch. Unless you are one of the lucky ones who knows exactly what you are doing with the next 24 years of your life and are interviewing for medical schools or sending out scores to law schools, you are now in the job pool. And if you are even luckier, you are within the padded confines of the business school application process, where you have already been hired.

Ten months in advance. For the rest of us poor souls, job applications are not even available for another few months.

Okay. Let’s look at this positively. There are a few people who are hired on their own merits—very few.

And they do just as well as people who are hired through the other process of “networking.” It’s just that first step of getting your foot in the door.

Whether it’s for an internship or a real-life job, employers are just looking for an easy way to whittle down their applicant pool.

And really, can you blame them? Well, yes—but in their defense, connections are a quick, painless way to pick an intern. And they already have an added reference.

Rather than just spend half a page complaining

about it, is there any way to break this cycle? After talking to friends, bosses and my parents, the consensus is no. If you want to get hired quickly and painlessly, it helps to know someone. And having the title CEO follow their name would be particularly helpful. The Career Center even admits to this unfortunate part of getting your foot into the door of the real world by arranging many “networking” opportunities for internship and job seekers. In my opinion, these networking events are very helpful, because the school is basically saying, “We know you can’t get a job on your own, but we have a huge amount of alumni who might know someone who knows someone in a field that you’re interested in. Please yak it up with them.”

So what am I going to do about it? Apply to hundreds, possibly thousands of jobs. Maybe look into finding the address of the Speaker of the House. And start walking his dog. And maybe I’ll have a job by the time my roommates graduate from Harvard Medical School.

Dara is a senior in Arts & Sciences and can be reached via e-mail at drpostar@wustl.edu.

golf carts, which might be something we could camp out for in the Admissions Office. Obviously, heated golf carts are ridiculous, but aren’t the thousands of frozen flower corpses underneath the Wash. U. permafrost, as well?

Gina is a junior in Arts & Sciences and can be reached via e-mail at gmanders@wustl. edu.

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Connections are key

By Dara Postar

classes to eliminate the coldness problem—and people driving to school still have to walk from class to class. And the fact that winter sets in late (not to mention abruptly) makes the cold seem that much worse, since we’re all acclimated to summer.

I think Wash. U. students have more than enough reason to whine about the cold—unless the administration wants to buy us heated

By Kevin Bastian Op-ed Submission

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ou have to see things through the eyes of the people you are trying to help.” With these words from his mentor, Ella Baker, Curtis Mohammed, active in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and social causes around the world for more than four decades, proved the Civil Rights Movement lives. Believed dead after the turmoil of Vietnam, Black Power/White Backlash and the failures of liberalism to solve the nation’s woes, Mohammed’s presentation last week at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work on the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund erased that misconception.

The sad truth for its continued existence: racism.

And according to Mohammed, it has not chosen to embody more subtle shapes in today’s society. The Ninth Ward of New Orleans—where race and class mix into a diabolical stew stirred by historical shame—provides a perfect, tragic example.

Not only has this country confined the residents to poverty, oppressed by racism which prevents education, quality jobs, health care and opportunities, but with the brutal assault of Hurricane Katrina, the government

(federal, state and local) basically sentenced residents to suffering and death.

As a country we had planned for these types of emergencies. We knew the consequences of each category of hurricane. In the days before Katrina, Max Mayfield from the National Hurricane Center had spoken with officials at the White House, the state of Louisiana and the city of New Orleans and urged evacuation, but nothing happened. Meanwhile, 57,000 families did not have transportation out! In the aftermath, survivors were trapped in terrible conditions at the Superdome and the city hospital; blacks were labeled as looters in the news media, while whites were instead “finding things.”

Today, many parts of white New Orleans are already fixed, while black and minority communities still lay in waste and the government offers a paltry $26,000 for property.

But positives emerge.

In its plans to rebuild the minority communities of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region, the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund echoes the common practices of the Civil Rights Movement with grassroots organizing at its best. Self-determination replaces a paternal reliance on whites—the continued manipulation of largess overturned by the seizure of

power. Revolutionarily, the relief fund does not seek to keep blacks out of the process, but to empower them with full control. The message: it’s your city, go remake in the ways you see fit.

In New Orleans warehouses right now, models of the city are laid out across the floors. If the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund has its way, residents can come, peer down and select locations for playgrounds, schools, grocery stores, their future lives. Their motto: why rely on a government that tried to kill you? And so, the battle royale wages on, as the government and agencies like the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund fight to determine the shape of post-hurricane New Orleans. If they can maximize the use of space—a tool linked to segregationist practices for decades—and if they can avoid the pitfalls of organizational fragmentation which haunted the direct action Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, positives will result.

I encourage you to keep in mind that there is still a struggle going on; watch for it in the events of this country. And check out the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund Web site; see if you can help.

Kevin is a senior in Arts & Sciences and can be reached via e-mail at kcbastia@wustl.edu.

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The real lessons of plagiarism

By Dan Lilienthal Op-ed Submission

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s an alumnus who has had personal experience with plagiarism and its consequences while a student at Wash. U., I would like to offer this candid essay to readers. The lesson I learned from my experience is two-fold: if you’re planning on plagiarizing, don’t get caught, and if your decision is hanging on the possible consequences of getting caught, simply consider the time, money and explanations to friends and family your actions will cost you.

Of course, the lessons I was supposed to learn were that my actions had been dishonest, lacked integrity and deserved punishment by failure. It was also argued that through my actions I was cheating other students. Of course, this is only true if a school is promoting the competition of students against one another for grades, and that there should be no sense of shared responsibility for students to help educate one another. During my academic integrity board meeting, I challenged the board’s assertions and their accompanying punishment, explaining that there was indeed a great deal of academic dishonesty that needed to be corrected, however, it was

the lack of academic integrity in the everyday classrooms, South 40 dorm rooms and offcampus apartments where the problems were occurring. What I was referring to at the time was the widespread intellectual apathy that is the culture of higher education at Wash. U. and throughout this country.

It is this apathy that creates a breeding ground for academic misdeeds such as plagiarism.

It was no surprise to learn in the article “Cheaters ‘fess up” in Student Life, published this past Monday, that nearly 40 percent of Wash. U. students have admitted to plagiarizing. This enormous fact leads us directly to the real lessons of plagiarism. The lesson to be learned is not that students who plagiarize are dishonest and lazy. Rather, the lesson is that the story we tell ourselves—the story that students, particularly those at top-ranked schools like Wash. U., are serious about their own learning and intellectual development—is a myth.

For those of us who truly care about academic integrity, it is this myth that needs to be critically examined, for only then might we hope to see young adults who love to learn and who learn what they love.

By highlighting the misdeed of cheating, we should be shining an equal, if not brighter,

spotlight on the conditions that are breeding apathy and acts of plagiarism in so many students. What we immediately find ourselves looking at is the central theme of education in society today. This theme is that school systems (not teachers) take away students’ natural desires to learn, creating in its place a game in which students will do whatever it takes, including cheating, to beat the system. Whereas a real education would involve students doing real work, engaging in deep discussions that are relevant to their lives and spending time developing relationships with other students and their professors that involve useful feedback, students find themselves in school systems where learning is mandated from the top down, where students are subjected to overcrowded classrooms, tested to death, made to believe grades are gods and where subjects are atomized and taught as independent from all other subjects.

An essay on this topic deserves to be concluded with solutions. The solutions, however, must come primarily from current students, and must involve a restructuring of school priorities. Faculty such as Dean Killen and researchers such as Professor McCabe will have to wait until students’

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learning becomes as high a priority as things like applicant SAT scores, alumni donations, college rankings and professional research and publishing before they see the rates of

plagiarism drop. In the meantime, individuals may use this essay as a conversation starter, or go ahead and put your name on top and take credit for it yourself.

Dan is an alumnus of the Class of 2003 and runs the Web site www.xanga.com/ dansjournal. He can be contacted via e-mail at dan_lilienthal@yahoo.com.

What can’t be won in Iraq

By Nathan Everly Op-ed Submission While describing the effects of the war in Iraq on future public opinion over American confl icts, Ohio State political scientist John Mueller remarked that “what you’re going to get after this is ‘We don’t want to do that again—No more Iraqs’ just as after Vietnam the syndrome was ‘No more Vietnams.’”

On the surface, this is not a terribly insightful prediction.

But what is interesting is his comparison between the war in Iraq and the Vietnam War. Although inadvertent, Mr. Mueller highlighted a growing sentiment among Americans that there are parallels between Iraq and Vietnam. And this sentiment has crossed over into the realm of politics.

Republican Senator Chuck Hagel stated that the war in Iraq is “not dissimilar to where we were in Vietnam,” and that “the longer we stay there, the more similarities to Vietnam

are going to come together.

It’s not surprising to see these parallels emerge. Both wars employed guerilla warfare and drew low approval ratings and widespread protests. President Bush recently announced that the military was going to begin utilizing a “clear, hold and build” strategy designed to combat insurgents. The last time such tactics were employed was during the latter part of the Vietnam War. Indeed, the similarities between the two confl icts certainly exist. But it is a mistake to assume that Vietnam is the only historical reference that can be compared to Iraq. In fact, in terms of war rhetoric, Iraq bears a much better resemblance to World War I than Vietnam.

On the eve of the United States’ entrance into World War I, it was President Woodrow Wilson who implored Congress that “the world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.”

A free, democratic Europe was all that Wilson needed to justify American intervention. But Wilson’s lofty rhetoric came crashing down during the aftermath of World War I as it became increasingly clear that the fight “for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments” would not be won. Germany’s new liberal democracy was powerless to stop a period of severe civil strife that plunged the nation into chaos. Institutional problems, as well as the severe punishments imposed by the Treaty of Versailles, would eventually contribute to the collapse of this fledgling liberal republic and the subsequent rise of Nazism.

In Russia and other nations, socialist revolutions would take hold and deny any hope for democracy to millions of people. And in the Middle East, the brutal history of modern Iraq began when the League of Nations installed a Sunni king to rule over three

disparate provinces from the former Ottoman Empire. President Wilson was undoubtedly disillusioned with the actual fruits of his grand vision.

A similar gap between rhetoric and reality is now apparent when listening to President Bush discuss Iraq’s transition from tyranny to democracy. The Iraq that exists today is something far less than the country that he describes as “a free nation that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself.” The newly created Iraqi constitution is a bland document that fails to reconcile the ethnic and religious tensions between the Sunni, Kurdish and Shia communities.

It also grants considerable autonomy to Iraqi provinces, creating a fractured country that deprives the Sunnis of their traditional hold on power. While 79 percent of Iraqis approved the constitution, an overwhelming 81 percent of voters rejected it in the Sunni-dominated Sallahudin province. Addition-

ally, the Sunni community has very little representation in the Iraqi security forces and remains supportive of the Baathist element of the insurgency. Economically, the country has high levels of unemployment and a basic infrastructure that is so crippled and ineffective that 60 percent of Iraqis still depend on foreign humanitarian aid for food and water. Iraq is a hollow democracy where the government cannot provide for its citizens, an entire ethnic group is marginalized and unity is effectively dead.

No, this is nothing like what the United States originally sought for Iraq.

Yet even though there is very little hope that Iraq will transform into a liberal democratic bastion for the rest of the Middle East, there are still reasons to continue fighting for it. Lawrence Kaplan, senior editor of “The New Republic” remarked that while there is very little left to fight for, “there’s plenty left to fight against in Iraq.” And he’s

right. The consequences of allowing Al Qaeda and Sunni terrorists to bring down the Iraqi government and transform it into a haven for their own would be severe enough to jeopardize global security.

Additionally, U.S. forces are quite possibly the only reason that current ethnic and religious tensions have not yet plunged the country into a civil war that would kill many more Iraqis. The gap between President Bush’s lofty rhetoric and the reality in Iraq can probably never be closed, but it can be narrowed. The goal of defeating an insurgency is not as admirable or as glamorous as transforming Iraq into a liberal democracy, but it is no less important. It is, as Lawrence Kaplan continued, “a different war now, a war worth fighting but a war without ideals.”

Nathan is a sophomore in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail at neverly@ wustl.edu.

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Stein ’toon ill-conceived Dear Editor: Josh Stein’s editorial cartoon on Dec. 7 concerning the Immokalee tomato pickers and Taco Bell was, unfortunately, inaccurate and poorly thought-out.

Stein apparently neglected to check his facts: due to boycott pressure, Taco Bell signed an agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in March, agreeing to the wage raise (the press release can be found here: www.ciw-online.org/ we%20won.html).

Though Stein raises a valid concern (that reducing demand for tomatoes may reduce the number of jobs available), the boycott—which was initiated, coordinated, and led by workers, not “self-righteous protestors”—relied upon Taco Bell being more willing to spend the money to raise wages than to lose a greater sum of money to the boycott long before the loss

of business would affect the workers. And, if Stein had taken the time to check his facts, he would have discovered that the workers were right.

-Joe Thomas Class of 2007

Our beloved ‘fountain’ Dear Editor: We would like to propose to your readers that all students, from this day forward, refer to the giant concrete geometric shapes as “the Fountain,” both for lack of a better term and for lack of a better fountain.

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Correction: The article “WU scientist finds lizards’ unique evolutionary trend” (Dec. 5, 2005) misidentified Allan Larson as a “lab professor” on the “lab staff” of Jonathan Losos. In fact, Larson and Losos are both professors of biology who collaborated on the work reported. Student Life regrets the error.

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SCENE Disabled students find Word on the Street: resources on campus What’s the strangest holiday

By Amanda Ogus Scene Reporter By now, most students have learned about many of the ways in which Wash.

U. caters to the needs of everyone. From the thriving Career Center to late hours at Olin Library to themed Center Court dinners, Wash.

U. definitely offers many resources to students. While students have heard about the many ways in which to take care of their tuition payments, there are still many aspects of the campus that few students take advantage of or even know about. The Disabilities Resource (DR) component of Cornerstone is one such resource.

The DR provides a plethora of resources for about 250 undergraduate and graduate students. These resources include extended time for exams, a distraction-reduced environment, in-class note takers and texts with enlarged print. Most of the resources center around the academic arena, as students are encouraged to utilize their four-year adviser for most other problems.

Disability Resources Coordinator Zachary McBee approves of Wash. U.’s style of aid.

“Really, at this point for students, especially students who are registering here, they’ve been dealing with a disability for a long time, so they have learned how to cope with it, how to adjust to it, how to advocate for themselves,” said McBee. “There

isn’t a lot of counseling that is going on, or ongoing advising, because they really just need their academic accommodation for them to show what they know.”

McBee believes that the DR is mainly set up to help students exhibit all their knowledge and achieve their academic goals by minimizing challenges posed by their disability. He maintains that the character of each school is reflected in its learning disabilities resources, making each department different. McBee is impressed by the attention Wash. U. has given to the DR’s academic resources.

“I don’t think there is another university like Wash.

U., and because of that, we have our own distinct students we are working with,” said McBee. “No university is the same. No disability office is providing the same sort of thing. There is no perfect program. There is nothing we can model ourselves after. We provide what is necessary for the students here. It’s really based on the students who walk onto this campus every fall.”

The University’s smaller student body also changes the shape of the program.

With a larger amount of students, larger state schools must treat many more cases of physical disabilities, which affects the character of the program. While the DR does deal with students who have either temporary or permanent physical disabilities, these students make up a smaller percent-

age than at state schools.

Most of the disabilities treated at the DR, about 70 percent, said McBee, are learning disabilities like dyslexia or Attention Deficit Disorder. There are many restrictions placed on aid for disabilities at the college level, so the DR must run through a specific process in order to make sure that a student qualifies for aid.

“There are things that we can provide to students with a disability, but they have to meet a certain set of criteria,” said McBee. “If we are providing that to any student who wants it, it’s an unfair advantage [over] the rest of the students.”

McBee strongly believes that the effect of the disability on a student’s life is particularly great at the college level, especially at an institution like Wash. U. “I always tell students that as much as you are dealing with your disability, it is an opportunity for you to learn the things that you are going to need for when you get out to the real world,” said McBee. “When students with disabilities get out of the University and into the real world, their disabilities are not going to affect their everyday lives that much.”

There are many ways for students without disabilities to get involved at the DR. The center is always looking for students to bring their notes from class or to proctor exams at different times during the day.

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“One year I got five jigsaw puzzles from my mom. All at once. I was 17!”

“My uncle always gives really cheap, random gifts. I’ve gotten a book of 101 golf jokes even though I don’t golf, a key chain and a plastic photo album that held like three pictures. I think he keeps a stock of gifts in a closet and just gives them out at random every year.”

“When my cousin was on anti-depressants, she gave me this toy bear thing that made a child-molester-like laugh when you squeezed it. When she gave it to me, she told me it was ‘just like Tickle-MeElmo,’ even though I was 16 at the time.”

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“A California Raisin lawn ornament with the leg broken off. I got it from a friend as a gag gift. I kept it in my yard until it got stolen.”

“A bag of salt and a palm tree from my parents last year. I think they just picked them up at Wal-Mart. I kept them in my room for a while until my dad used the salt and the tree died.”

“One year I got this jogging suit. It was light purple with pink and white hearts all over.

I was 12 when I got it, so I was a little too old to be wearing something like that. I said thanks over the phone, but I never wore it. It was pretty atrocious.”

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A final goodbye to senior fall athletes

By David Kramer Sports Reporter As an ode to the departing senior fall athletes, Student Life asked the stars of our fall sports about their experiences at the University, what they’ve learned, what they’re walking away with and everything in between. In a group discussion format, seniors Brennan Bonner (cross country), Brad Duesing (football), Kara Liefer (volleyball), and Andrea Moreland (cross country) took a stroll down memory lane.

The Athletes: Brennan Bonner: of Baltimore, Md., a biomedical engineering major, was the No. 1 runner for the men’s cross country team. Bonner was named to the all-Midwest region in 2004 and 2005, first team all-UAA for the past three years, and helped lead the Bears to the University Athletic Association (UAA) title in 2003 with a personal best 8K time of 24:52.00.

Brad Duesing: of Cincinnati, Ohio, a political science major, was twice named UAA offensive player of the year and was a fourtime first team all-UAA honoree.

Duesing, a team captain, had a school-record 75 catches for 1,136 yards and 10 touchdowns in 2005. He eclipsed 1,000 receiving yards for the fourthconsecutive season, becoming only the second player in NCAA h istor y (Division I, II or III) to record four consecutive 1,000yard receiv ing seasons.

He ranks first in FACES s c h o o l Brad Duesing h istor y in pass receptions and receiving yards, third in Division III history in receptions (287) and sixth in receiving yards (4,249).

Kara Liefer: of Red Bud, Ill., a mathematics major and the setter and co-captain for the women’s volleyball team, was a three-time AVCA All-America selection (including two firstteam nods), and led the UAA in assists per game (11.92) in 2005.

Liefer was a two-time team

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captain and ranks third on the Bears’ career assists list (4,461).

Liefer also tallied eight career triple-doubles and helped lead her squad to a 35-2 record in 2005 and a national championship in 2003.

Andrea Moreland: of Rochester, Mich., a French and economics major, was a senior runner for the girl’s cross country team and a three-time all-UAA athlete. Moreland helped the women’s team win four consecutive UAA titles and four consecutive national top 10 finishes.

What was your favorite sports memory at Washington University?

Liefer: Mine would have to be winning the national championship my sophomore year.

We beat La Verne in the semifinals and the championship game was held at La Verne. It was nice to beat them on their own court, because the atmosphere there was like a 10. It was a really packed area with a lot of fans screaming and yelling at us that kind of gave us some power behind our win. We did end up beating one of our conference rivals in the finals (NYU), which was nice, too. Also, we had not won a national championship for so long and it was nice to bring that back to Wash. U. after so many years of drought.

Moreland: My favorite moment would have to be my freshman year when we found out we

got fourth place at Nationals.

It was a really special moment because we had really exceeded expectations of what we could do and we just really came together as a team to accomplish what we did.

Duesing: I would have to say that it was my last game against Greenville, at least for me personally, ‘cause I had a really good game; but also, the team rallying after falling behind early and then to come back and score 35 unanswered points and just really end the season on a good note after starting out 1-3.

To end on four straight wins definitely builds the confidence for the guys coming back next year to work hard in the off-season.

Bonner: My favorite moment would have to be indoor conference championships last year when I won the 3K and set a school record by beating the school record. My teammate Kevin Gale also broke the school record.

Did you ever wonder what it would be like if you had gone to a bigger school?

Liefer: Well, when I was choosing where I would go to school I was recruited by a lot of smaller D-I and D-II schools in Illinois. I live really close to St. Louis, so I knew a lot about Wash. U. Wash U. had pretty much the complete package with academics, as well as a chance to compete and win a national championship every year, so really I have no regrets.

Moreland: I chose Wash. U. because I realized they take athletics seriously, but also that I could also have a chance at the full college experience. I am really glad I chose to come here.

Duesing: I never really had too many other options to play football, but I definitely wanted to continue playing football, and Wash. U. had great academics that gave me a chance here.

Bonner: When I was looking at colleges I knew I wanted to go into engineering and I knew that I wanted to keep running, and I just narrowed it down to about four schools. Coming to Wash.

U., I just felt really comfortable with the situation here.

Looking back at your four years here do you have any regrets?

Liefer: I didn’t necessarily have any regrets. Sometimes

you wonder what it would be like, but with the athletics here and the academics, it’s really the best of both worlds. With the volleyball team in particular we’ve been really successful every year I have been here. So I really don’t have any regrets because I’ve had a great time, playing on a sports team, and doing well on a competitive team and academically.

Moreland: No regrets.

Duesing: I don’t have any regrets. If I had gone D-I, I would have had to walk on and I would have had to have been on the scout team for four years and maybe gotten a chance to see the field like one or two games.

The best part about playing a sport here is actually being in the games. At Wash. U. I got an opportunity to play and I am happy for that.

Bonner: You sometimes wonder what it would be like.

I mean, now I guess it’s different with running, because with cross country we actually got to race a lot of D-I schools and you realize that you’re actually better than a lot of D-I runners. So I have no regrets because I really wasn’t missing out.

I only ran two years in high school (played soccer two years), he helped me really mature as a runner and I was really thankful for his help.

Duesing: I would say Coach Kindbom because he has been coaching me for four years. Also there was an offensive coordinator, Coach Keene, who recruited me in high school. I guess he saw something in my tapes that he really liked that no other coaches saw and then once I got here he kind of stuck his neck out on the line and told Coach Kindbom to start me as a freshman, which was kind of unheard of here at Wash. U., so I am really thankful for him as well.

Did you have any role models or people you would like to thank?

Bonner: I would say this guy who was a junior my freshman year and captain two times, Matt Foley. He was an okay runner in high school but he was a crazy example of hard work. He would do all the smaller things to a “T.” I guess coming in, since

Moreland: I don’t think I have any real role models but I really appreciated that Coach Stiles has always really believed in me even when I wasn’t having a great season. When I was going through a rough time he always knew that I would bounce back.

It was really encouraging when you’re having harder times, to have someone keep encouraging you.

Liefer: When I was a sophomore, Katie Quinn was a senior, and that was the year that I started for the first time. We won the national championship that year, but she was really positive all the time, never complained, and was such a hard worker. I was young and she really helped me out and told me what to do in certain situations. Also, Coach Luenemann, because he took extra time for me to give me extra help because setters need to go in for additional practices like a quarterback that needs extra throws with his receivers. Lastly, my senior teammates Megan Houck and Nicole Hodgman, who have been there for me no matter how tough the

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Water polo takes the Nationals by storm

By Derek Winters Sports Reporter Washington University has a top 20 nationally ranked water polo team. Unknown to most of the University population, the team has quietly gained a national spotlight from old-fashioned hard work and high school recruiting.

“Our connections to our high schools are the main form of recruitment. Many of our players come from the same high schools throughout the country,” said senior Dan Kozlov, the team’s co-president.

Despite its ability to recruit talented athletes devoted to the game, a club sport like water polo must always deal with the issue of money. In order to stay above the water line (no pun intended), the squad maintains a strict budget and receives a “good” amount of money from Student Union. How much they are given is often correlated with how successful the team is.

Despite Student Union funding, team members still have to pay between $100-$250 dollars a season to keep the team afloat, an amount with which they are willing to part for the team’s success. The fi nal amount each member has to pay depends on the number of trips the team takes.

“Six years ago we didn’t get much funding and we weren’t good. However, Student Union has stepped up the funding and they have seen results,” said Kozlov.

Now in its sixth year of competition, the team is considered an underdog in the Division I world. Facing many “uneven” standards, the team is nonetheless very efficient at winning when it counts.

Starting off the season sluggishly, the team ultimately found itself at a record of 3-5. Being a major underdog and the fourth seed out of five in the Missouri Valley Conference, however, the team rattled off some timely victories against Lindenwood University’s “B” Team and rival Western Illinois to fi nd itself facing Lindenwood’s “A” Team in the Con-

ference Finals. Even though the team lost 19-7, members found themselves in second place in the conference.

Lindenwood decided to take a bid to the Division III National Championships, opening up the Missouri Valley Conference spot to the Bears.

“It is very hard to compete with Lindenwood and other teams in the league for various factors, such as time commitment and scholarships,” said Kozlov.

Lindenwood University, located in St. Charles, Mo., is about the same size as Washington University. Lindenwood is known for favoring its sports and scholarships over its academics, though.

“Lindenwood is giving out scholarships all the way up to full rides.

We cannot compete with that because we are a club team and we cater to a different student,” said Kozlov.

Another factor regarding the Missouri Valley Conference that is disadvantageous to the Bears is the type of schools in the conference.

Unlike the University Athletic Association (UAA), which includes several schools that have similar academics to Wash. U., the Missouri Conference is made up of Lindenwood, Northern Illinois, and Western Illinois. With the exception of Lindenwood, these teams have between 1,200 to 12,000 more students than the University, creating a potentially larger and more talented pool.

Nevertheless, the Bears stood up to the challenges they faced and have taken the water polo world by storm. This season, the team was led by seniors Andrew Killips, who had seven out of the nine goals in the National Championships, Matt Weber, who was a three-year veteran on the squad, and goalkeeper Kozlov.

Referring to reasons behind the team’s overall 3-5 record, Kozlov noted, “We were playing very unorganized at the start of the season because we didn’t have a coach. Another problem is that many guys didn’t really come to practices often.”

The team, which practices three times a week, racking up 15-20 to-

tal hours per week, fi nally found a coach. In doing so, the team gained the motivation it needed and found itself the 14th seed in the Division I National Club Championships, which were held Nov. 18.

Due to the timing of the Club Championships, six out of the 10 starters didn’t make the trip for academic reasons. This gave the opportunity for many freshmen to step up and fi ll in during their fi rst year.

In the Championships, the Bears faced off against Michigan State University in the fi rst game of the tournament, but was outmatched by the much bigger Spartan team, losing 21-1. The Spartans ended up losing in the Championship game and taking home second place.

In the second game the squad faced Big 12 powerhouse Iowa State.

Playing a very poor fi rst half, the Bears went into halftime down 101. Better defense and six goals from Andrew Killips narrowed the gap to 18-8, however, before the Bears fi nally lost and ended their season.

The team looks to rebuild and reload for next season, with an already strong foundation in place to build a “great” team.

“We have so many freshmen and many of them have National Championship experience. There is no reason why this club shouldn’t be great in the years to come,” said Kozlov.

The club is set up like a corporation, according to Kozlov. The team puts juniors and underclassmen in roles on the board to prepare how to run the club. Junior Alex Mueller will be looked to as one of the new leaders for next year.

“The club is a lot like a business.

We have to allocate money, set up travel, manage people, and hopefully win some games along the way,” said Kozlov.

The team has been invited to three off-season tournaments in Iowa, Colorado, and New Orleans for the rest of this season.

For further information regarding the team, students can contact Dan Kozlov at kozlovd@wustl.edu.

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times were for me or the team, and I really appreciate them for always being great friends.

Are there any words of advice you want to leave your teammates after four years of experience?

Bonner: Every year at the end of the year there is a cross country banquet and seniors always say that it goes by so fast, and that’s probably what I am going to end up saying. I mean, it really does go by really fast, and it’s a great time.

Duesing: I’d probably say the same thing. Even when you are by yourself doing your last rep, you still get to play college football. I mean, look at all the people that are done after their senior year in high school. You still get to play four more years.

Just cherish every moment…every game…every snap.

Moreland: I would tell them to remember that every time you go out there that this could be the last time you ever get to do something that you love everyday with 20 or 30 other people your age that love it, too. Just really appreciate that you are part of a team.

Liefer: I agree with all of these things, but to add to it, just to make the best of it, try your hardest… be competitive… like you all said, it’s going to be over when you graduate, unless you go play professional somewhere, which doesn’t happen very often. So just have fun.

What are your plans after graduation?

Liefer: Well, I’m doing an internship in St. Louis at a consultant firm, Millman Inc., and they actually offered me a job, so that is what I plan on doing. I haven’t taken exams yet, but I took the job. So after I finish the exams, I will be working there.

Moreland: I was just offered a job in Washington, D.C. at the Corporate Executive Board of research analysts and I’m pretty sure I am going to take it.

Duesing: I’m still searching right now, but I am going to take the LSAT in the spring, and probably take a year off and then probably go to law school.

Bonner: It’s still up in the air what I do next year. I am really interested in doing Teach for America, but I am not sure.

An unforgettable night: ‘Swish!’

It happened last Sunday confidently. In this confernight. It was my first truly ence season-opener for both out-of-body experience. In the Blue Devils and the Hokthe seconds leading up to it, ies, the teams faced 19 lead I was overwhelmed by feelchanges and 12 ties. Finally, ings of anxiety, anticipation, with a little over four mineven fear. Fortunately, this utes to go, Duke had built an fear only lasted for those 11-point lead (74-63) and all few seconds—1.6 seconds, of us Duke fans could relax Allie to be exact. a little. They had it…

Wieczorek And then this feeling of Or so we thought. Before I pure elation came over me. I was sud- knew it, those “a little over four mindenly uncontrollably shaking, and utes” had passed and Virginia Tech’s yelling “Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh Coleman Collins’ tip-in had just my God!” And suddenly, I reached finished off Tech’s 12-0 run. That’s this point where I couldn’t even yell right: 1.6 seconds to go and Duke’s anymore. I couldn’t relax my face. down (75-74). After a timeout (and I was unconditionally stuck with not to mention some debate over the this wide-open-mouthed smile that amount of time left and some diffiwouldn’t go away, my eyes bulging culty getting that amount of time on out of my head. I was frozen from the the scoreboard accurately), Blue Devil neck up. And yet, I could’ve sworn rookie Josh McRoberts had the ball the rapid pounding of my heart and at the baseline. He passed it roughly trembling of my hands would never 47 feet to Sean Dockery at half-court. go away.

Dockery had no choice but to shoot.

Luckily, I got the feeling back in And that’s when I heard it: “Swish!” my face and the convulsing shenaniThere was no way that shot wasn’t gans eventually came to a halt. But going in. 1.6 seconds have never gone those 1.6 seconds, and the 10 or so by so slowly. That ball just flew, alminutes that followed them, will be most as if in slow motion, directly to with me forever. And all because of the basket. And then it gracefully fell one little sound: “Swish.” through the exact center of the hoop.

I swore I’d hold off on writing about No rim. No backboard. Just “swish.”

Duke at least until second semester, Buzzer. Game. Perfection. Duke wins but I had to make an exception. And 77-75. if you saw that Duke-Virginia Tech Now, that’s college basketball for game Sunday night, you have no you. No other sport could generate choice but to forgive me. Besides, this what went through the minds, bodisn’t about the greatness and superi- ies, hearts and souls of every person ority of my precious Dukies, but rath- watching that game Sunday night. er about the greatness and superior- College basketball, from a fan’s ity of college basketball, as a whole, in standpoint, is an emotional roller the realm of competitive sports. coaster. I find myself so overwhelmFor those of you who missed the ingly affected by wins, by losses, and game, it was college basketball at its especially by specific single shots, best. Only in college basketball does steals, rebounds—you name it. And an unranked team like the Virginia whether or not there’s a game on or Tech Hokies actually pose a threat to it’s even college basketball season, a No. 1 team like the Duke Blue Dev- it distracts me from “real” life, from ils when they’re visitors at a place like what I should probably be thinking Cameron Indoor Stadium. about or doing instead. But moments Sure, there are upsets in every like Dockery’s half-court shot to win sport, but in college basketball—par- Sunday’s nights game for Duke make ticularly in the ACC—no game can it all worth it. ever be approached lightly or over-

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Standout Performers of the Week Kelly Manning

Michael Slavik

Kelly Manning Senior Women’s Basketball

Mike Grunst Senior Men’s Basketball

Manning led her fi fth-ranked Washington University women’s basketball team to a 9146 rout over Blackburn College on Wednesday, Dec. 6. Manning posted a team-high 26 points in the effort, despite playing for only six minutes in the second half. She shot 10-for-16 from the field and 5-of-10 from three-point range, as well as recording three rebounds and two blocks.

Grunst posted a double-double in the University’s 68-50 win over Blackburn College on Wednesday. He led the team with 11 rebounds, and contributed 14 points to the effort, good for second best on the team. In 28 minutes of play, the center also led the team with two blocks and helped the strong Bear defense hold Blackburn to 50 points on the night.

Mike Grunst

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Meredith Nordbrock Sophomore Swimming and Diving

Slavik’s standout performances at last weekend’s Wheaton Invitational in Illinois helped guide the men’s swim team to victory.

Slavik atomatically qualified for the NCAA Championships in five events and helped the Bears break multiple school records. He earned NCAA “A” cuts in the 50- (20.52), 100- (44.49) and 200-yard freestyles (1:39.77). In addition, Slavik helped the Bears’ 200-free relay (1:22.34) and 800-free relay (6:47.42) teams to automatic qualifying times and school records.

Nordbrock led the women’s swim team to a third-place fi nish at the Wheaton Invitational. She automatically qualified for the NCAA Championships in two events and provisionally qualified in five others, earning NCAA “A” cuts in the 100-yard backstroke (58.31) and the 800free relay (7:40.73), a school record-breaking time. Nordbrock also provisionally qualified in the 200-yard back (2:06.12) and 200 IM (2:09.22), as well as the 200-medley relay (1:47.76), 400medley relay (3:56.48) and the 400-free relay (3:34.76).

Meredith Nordbrock

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Student Life Sports Staff Junior Sarah Kliff is the senior News editor of Student Life, and is majoring in political science and PNP. Sarah enjoys eating cereal straight from the box, being Canadian, and talking at decibels that only elephants can roar at. She prides herself in her mastery at the game of flip cup, and has a pet moose named Mapleleaf. Don’t trust her picks.

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Last Week

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N/A

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16-0

12-4 (John Horky)

Season Record

115-61

94-66

108-68

114-62

117-59

107-69

115-61

88-72 (all opponents)

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Once a cross-state rivalry, this week’s game essentially means nothing, other than another minor obstacle to the Bengals, who will clinch the AFC North for the fi rst time since the fi rst Bush administration. Carson Palmer will perform like he always does—efficiently and accurately, and Chad Johnson will send the Browns scrambling for the Pepto-Bismol. Cleveland’s rookie starting QB, Charlie Frye, will play decently but won’t put up numbers big enough to get the ‘W.’ Rueben Droughns, Cleveland’s fi rst 1000-yard RB since the year “Back to the Future” came out, will put up a solid game against a weak Bengal front line, but the Browns will need about one point twenty one giga-watts of effort from the whole team to even have a chance at this one. It pains me to say this, but the Browns will lose again.

This week’s spotlight will focus on the bitter NFC East division rivalry between the Philadelphia Eagles and the New York Football Giants. To put it simply, however, this is not likely to be the Giants’ most difficult game of the season. The Eagles are missing WR Terrell Owens, RB Brian Westbrook, and QB Donovan McNabb. Can they still win? Well, would you want to go see The Beatles perform without Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and George Harrison? It was called Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band, and history has learned to pretend it never happened. Lining up across from the cast of misfits on the Eagles offense will be the suddenly staunch and sophisticated Giant defense, which has stifled and stymied the opposition in recent games. Expect the Giants to defend their lead atop the NFC East as they roll to another victory against the Eagles.

Cincinnati 26, Cleveland 16

New York 30, Philadelphia 13

Calling Mr. Plow...

TOP LEFT: Ridgley and the Quad were covered in snow and were not cleared until late in the day.

TOP RIGHT: Freshman Lauren Jaffe gets pelted with a snowball thrown by freshman Yoon Chang.

BOTTOM LEFT: Snow blanketed the campus in a flurry of flakes.

BOTTOM RIGHT: Students play snow football on the Swamp.

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